Improvement in ironing apparatus



in. H. GARDNER. lro n ing Apparatus. No.169,25 0. Patented o p. 26,1875.

UNITED STATES n 1oHA-1t1 H. GARDNEEOF. TROY, NEW YORK.

IMPROVEMENT lN I RONING APPARATUS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 169,250, dated October 26, 1875; application filed August 21, 1875.

Figure 1 is a front elevation of the machine.

Fig. 2 is a sectional elevation, showing sections of the three rolls and the improvements therein.

.It is well known to laundrymen that at least two heats are required to properly dry and iron collars and cuffs. To effect this they are passed under two or more hot-rolls.

The object of this invention is to simplify the machine, and at the same time increase its capacity by a construction and arrangement'of the rolls in such manner that both sides of the fabric will be ironed by the same heated roll, thereby reducing the number of rolls to three, and making it necessary to heatonly one; also, to make it automatic to such an extent that the fabric, after once passing between the rolls, will return between the rolls to the operator without rehandling.

I is the frame, constructed in the usual manner. A and G are large rolls covered with cloth or other suitable material in the ordinary manner. Between these rolls is the hollow roll B, heated by gas carried through the journals, or in any of the ordinary methods.

The rolls may be geared together at one or both ends, and the gearing so constructed and arranged that the rolls can be adjusted in such manner that they will revolve with equal rapidity, and there be no friction between the goods and the rolls, producing what is known to the trade as the domestic finish,

or the rolls can be so adjusted that they will .E is an inclined plane, made of wood or.

other material and of same length as rolls, which acts as a guard. It is located behind the rolls, and with its lower edge so near the top of the roll 0 that the fabric passing out from between the rolls A and B will drop onto the inclineE and slide down to and be caught between the rolls B and O. D is an apronin front of the operator, and located parallel with and 'near the top of the roll 0, upon which the collars or other goods are placed for ironing, and upon which they are deposited after passing between A and B and returned between B and C. H is a lever, upon which aweight is hung for obtaining the required pressure upon the rolls, the journals of I one or more of which are movable in the frame, or the necessary pressure may be obtained in any other known method.

Power is conveyed to the rolls in the usual manner. ,t

In operation, the article to be ironed is'" placed by the operator between the rolls A and B, and it passes between them ironed on its lower side, which came in contact with the hot-roll B, and drops upon the incline E. It then immediately slides down the incline and is caught by the rolls B and G, and carried back between them with the upper side of the fabric ironed, because, on this return, the up per side came in contact with the heated roll B. It then drops upon the apron in front of the operator finished.

Thus it will be seen that by this arrangement of the rolls both sides of the article are ironed by the same heated roll without rehandling, which economizes time, labor, and

' fuel.

so directed as to follow the heated roll one whole revolution, and then be removed by the operator.

It is obvious that rolls A and C may be converted into heating-rollers and roll B into a covered roll, and I do not, therefore, intend to limit myself to a single heated roll, nor to the particular position the rolls occupy with reference to each other.-

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure'by Letters Patent, is- 1. In combination with the rolls A, B, and

scribed.

Witness my hand this IOth dLy of Au gusfi, s75.

O, thednclined plan 0, E, in; thepurpose of. an tmnatiually feeding the fabric; between the 1 rolls B and Q, substautiallyasdescribed.

2. The combination of the shelf or table D, m

Witnesses:

N. DAVENPQR'lf, E. H. G. CLARK:

RICHARD H. GARDNER therollsgi, B, and O, and the inclined table E, all arranged toopemte substantially as deu 

